As many as 350 women were allegedly put through virginity and pregnancy tests during a mass marriage programme organised by the Madhya Pradesh government at Harad village in the tribal-dominated district of Betul on Friday.

An Egyptian military tribunal on Sunday acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo a virginity test while in detention. The court denied the humiliating tests even took place, d...

Egypt's military rulers have promised that women in custody will not be subjected to virginity tests in future, Human Rights Watch said today.An apparent admission by a general last month in an interview with CNN that some female protesters detained in March had been forced to undergo the tests spar...